Upgrade - worth it?

Soldato
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I'm currently running a 2.6 P4, a 6600GT, 1gb ram and 200gb HD in a T2-P Asus Terminator (which fits perfectly. so I'd like to keep with the size).

Although most games and everything runs pretty well, I think games out this year may struggle. BF2 wasn't smooth.

So I've been contemplating this...

  • ASUS T2-AH1 ATI 200, Black S939 BAREBONE DDR400, PCI-E x16, SATA, 6ch Audio, Gbit lan,7in1 Reader £99.86
  • AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 3800+ Socket 939 , Manchester Core, 2x 2.0GHz , 1MB Cache, Retail £190.80
  • 256Mb XFX 7600GT Mem Clock 1400 MHz, GPU 560 MHz, 12 Pipes, Dual DVI-I S-Video/TV Out £111.63
  • Icybox IB-128SK-B Black SATA Removebale HDD Rack with Blue-Eye Lockable Aluminum/Plastic £7.80
  • 320 Gb Western Digital WD3200JD Caviar SE, SATA150, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, 8.9 ms £74.38
£496.21

I can use the memory and HD I already have. The icybox will allow me to fit a 2nd hard drive into the spare optical bay giving me 500gb (I could do with a bit more storage.)

The only things I'm not sure about are the graphics card and whether getting a dual core x2 is worth it or not.
 
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